It's the taxpayer's money

11:52 AM,
Dec. 4, 2013

Written by

Joe Testa
Ohio tax commisisoner

Not much makes me angrier than when the government fails to serve the citizens it's supposed to be serving. That's exactly what has been happening for decades in Ohio at the state Tax Department and why I have been quoted in newspapers around the state recently using words like 'reprehensible,' 'intolerable,' 'wrong' and 'shocked.'

I felt that anger when learning in 2012 that for many years the department did not tell many businesses that they had overpaid their taxes. Worse, unless the businesses discovered it themselves and asked for a refund within three or four years, depending on the ...